Brian VastagSep 17, 2023

I have an article out today that's about how one person's determination to solve her own complex health problems led to an extraordinary effort on the part of one lab at NIH & a discovery that could lead to treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome & #LongCovid.

#news #journalism #health #MEcfs #medicine #research

https://wapo.st/3Pem0G4
(gift link)

She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough.

Her dogged efforts lead to a new scientific discovery that may help many others with chronically fatiguing illnesses, including long covid.

Washington Post
Show threadSteve Moore 
@brianvastag Thanks for the article. Here is a related one, also involving the endoplasmic reticulum. I'm betting that rabbit hole will lead to microbiotic strains that may correct the misfolding of proteins, since it involves metabolic signaling.
https://www.science.org/content/article/protein-disrupts-cells-energy-centers-may-be-culprit-chronic-fatigue-syndrome
Sep 17, 2023 at 6:21pmWeb
Show threadBrian VastagSep 17, 2023
@ArrowbearMoore Yep that's a report on the same research.